[ad_1]
CITY OF MEXICO (El Universal) .- The National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) will exhibit for free from the next school year 17 works of art, including eight works by Diego Rivera, one of Francisco Toledo and another of Gabriel Orozco, who was ensured to the former head of this organization, Elba Esther Gordillo Morales, and who were valued at about three billion pesos.
#OurPatrimonioOurOrgullo Reclaimed Artistic Works Recovered Strengthen Art and National Culture and Magistral Srio Gral #SNTE Cepeda Salas Alphonse pic.twitter.com/joQxwQ6v7G
– Snte Nacional (@SnteNacional) 29 June 2018
Other works are from the author "Clavé", one more by Pedro Coronel, and the others are identified as "unknown author".
The curator of the collection and president of the Mexican Society of Authors of the Arts Plást icas, Paul Achar Zavalza, assured that the pieces are in a good state of preservation and pointed out that among them are five of the 21 panels painted by Diego Rivera at the New Workers School in New York in 1933.
was acquired before 2013, but was secured by the PGR as part of investigations into the possible misappropriation of resources attributed to Gordillo Morales.
Alfonso Cepeda Salas, general secretary of the SNTE, avoided referring to the judicial process by which the works They remained in defense of the PGR.
At a press conference, he explained that the official delivery was completed on June 28 and that the SNTE planned to exhibit them for free and permanently from the next school year. with the requirements for its conservation, a circumstance that is analyzed by the specialized staff of the union headed by Juan Díaz de la Torre.
"On the acquisition We know that it was with the union dues of education workers at the time (during the administration of the island d & # 39; Elbe Esther Gordillo), "he said:" It took us a long time to recover them because we had to demonstrate irrefutably with the property certificates name of the Union of Education Workers. there are other works that are not in the name of the union, but we must prove that they were purchased with the money of the members of the organization. "
Cepeda Salas said that he does not know how much and what works still need to be recovered. The PGR
emphasized that the teachers' organization welcomed the realization of the development of cultural heritage.
"We, the teachers, are happy.With unity, pride and commitment we have recovered a very important heritage for the organization."
At the end of the press conference, the lawyer Marco Antonio del Toro explained that the work had been made available to the SNTE from the moment Esther Gordillo was arrested, but Soralla Bañuelos De la Torre, legal representative of the union, refused to receive them.
"It is a negligence that the SNTE did not want to receive possession of these works acquired to be part of the cultural heritage that it belonged to the City of Knowledge, an approved project by the Sixth Extraordinary Congress of the National Union, "he said.
"Before a notary, we noted that this lady did not want to receive the work and in a court of Mexico City We initiated a voluntary jurisdiction to return the possession of the SNTE, but in the negative, the PGR has them insured, that is why they have not recovered anything, the works were still available to their owner, the union. "
In an interrogation conducted in 2015 by the lawyer Toro to Bañuelos De la Torre, the legal representative of the SNTE indicated that the project of the City of Knowledge, promoted by the former leader, included the construction of a museum in which 86 works of art would be exhibited . Diana Lastiri
[ad_2]
Source link
